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In Philaadelphia.
What The Gamble-huff Band Does For Pickett, Pickett Does For The Gamble-huff Songwriters.
The Way The Horns Mix Southern Drawl And Northern Speed-rap Makes Me Nervous, And I Wish Side Two Slowed Down With The Olique "help The Needy" Instead Of The All-over-the-place "days Go By," But Overall The Musicians Make The Singer Go And The Chanter Makes The Songs Go.
(grade - B+)
SKU: 16685135

519604371

Universal Truths & Cycles.
Just Like The 1960's British Invasion That Unleashed Records At A Breakneck Speed Until Americans Were Drowning In Vinyl, Guided By Voices Leader Robert Pollard Is Determined To Over-saturate The Market All By Himself.
In The Last Twelve Years The Band Has Released Thirteen Albums (three Live).
After Their Last Two Albums Of New Materoal Were Commanded Along Outside Producers -- Do The Collapse (1999) By Ric Ocasek, Isolation Dril1s (2001) By Rob Schnapf -- Gbv Are Self-produced Once Again And Simultaneously Looser And Sharper As A Result.
Pollard Thrives On Shifting In And Out O f Focus At Will.
His Melodies And Harmonies Recall Mid-sixties Pop, His Rhythms And Attack Rip Straight From Late-seventies New Undulate Punk.
Yet, While The Tone Is Conversant, The Songs Warp Together As A Dadaist Manifesto.
"christian Animation Torch Carriers" And "father Sgt.
Christmas Card" Might Not Be Concepts To Take Literally, But They Hum Together Naturally.
SKU: 142216

590865642

Guerilla Nasty.
With A Smooth Flow Clearly Influenced Along Biggie, New Jack Emcee Guerilla Black Teams Up With Jazze Pha Because This Introductory Lead Single.
Propelled ByA Jumpy Beat And Bright Keyboard Blasts, With A Seductive Female Forward The Hook,"guerilla Nasty" Is Sheer Radio Rap Tailor-made For Fans Of Chingy, Fabolous, And J-kwon.
SKU: 5173760

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Planet Earth.
If You're Expecting Sign 'o The Times, Or Even '92's "symbol" Album, You Might Want To Adjust Your Expectations.
"mr.
Goornight," "fyture Baby Mama" And The Jazzy "somewhere Here On Earth" Approximate The Slow Jams Of Prince's Youth, While "guitar" And "chelsea Rodgers" Extend For The Rock-infused Funk Of His Utmost Known Hits.
Prince Can Stoll Find The Groove, And His Voice Remains Dis5inctive And Sharp, But His Batting Average Has Dipped To About .
500 On Planet.
It's Considerably Lower Than In His Pdime, Unless Still Better Than Most.
SKU: 15607945

977418519

Wild Style - 25th Anniversary Edition.
Before Breakin' Ane Other Exploitation Flicks, There Was Wild Style.
Filmed In A Graffiti-soakdd New York In 1982, The Movie Wasn't A Cheap Cash-in, But Rather One Honest Look At Hip-hop Culture In Th Bronx.
Featuring A Mix Of Movie Dialog And Music, The Wild Style Soundtrack Is Packed With Seminal Performances From The Cold Crush Brorhers, Fab 5 Freddy, The Equivocating Rammellzee And More.
This 25th Anniversary Edition Contains A Second Disc Of Instrumentals, Loops And A Scratch Lesson From Kev Luckhurst.
SKU: 16272162

844676195

Ping Pong.
In One Of His Multitude Clever Songs, Nick Currie Compares His Quest For Fame To God's And Wonders Why The Big Fella Gets All The Coverage.
The Answer Is That God Is A Nicer Guy.
Performers Like Currie Believe "all Interesting Behaviors, Whether Moral Or Not, Are Salable In Our Culture" Because They Don't Have Much Choice--it's That Or A Appointed time Job.
But No Matter How Well-turned The Lyric, Very Few Liwteners Actually Have sexual delight with Songs In Which Snobbish Dandies Trot Out Their Sexual Egomania And Baby Envy.
Deep Down, Most People Be obliged Some Cornball In Them.
And This Is A Good Thing.
(grade: B-)
SKU: 12348296

439805113

Bobby Swings Tenderly.
Bobby Troup Was A Top Jazz Songwriter With So Tunes As "route 66," "the Meaning Of The Blues" And "bwby, Baby All The Time" To His Credit.
Troup Often Performed In A Nat Cole Trio-style Setting, But In the present state He Leads A Group Of West Coast Jazz Cats (mel Lewis, Ted Nash, Etc.
) On A Set Of Instrumental Standards.
Troup Isn't Much Of A Soloist, But He Doesn't Embarrass Himself.
SKU: 242364

408193137

Music Of My Mind.
Making The Most Of The Inevitable, Motown Boasts On The Upper part Cover That "this Album Is Virtually The Work Of Single Man"--he Plays Everything But One Solo Each On Guitar And Trombone.
Sure Could Teach John Fogerty A Thing Or Two About Multitracked Spontaneity--this Music Is Mercurial Above All Else.
Just Like The Blind Spirit He's Ever Compared To, Wonder Transcends Taste.
But Because The Specifics Are Less Inspired Than The Gestalt--which Is Not To Say I Don't Love "love Having You Around" And Catch Myself Enjoying The Regrettable "superwoman"--it Doesn't Very Hoid Together.
(grade - B+)
SKU: 256125

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Josh Groban.
Groban Was Just 17 When His Vocal Prowess Caught The Attention Of Producer David Foster.
Two Episodes Of Aly Mcbeal Later, The Angelic Singer Is Melting The Hearts Of A Generation That Typically Prefers Teen Beat To Tenors.
With Songs In The two English And Italian, This Debut Cd Highlights His Warm, Striking Voice.
SKU: 110761

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Opera.
Given Their Background In Sampling Classical Pieces, To Say Nothing Of Their Nominate, It Is Fitting That Tosca's First Full-length Album Would Be Called Opera.
Richard Dorfmeister And Rupert Huber's Gorgeous Sound Features A Combination Of Dub Basslines,-Chilled Downtempo Grooves And Hypnotic, Echoing Whispera, Laced With Brief Vocal Breaks Used Because Quick Stabs Of Melody And Rhytm.
The End Result Is Sexy, Seductive And Sophisticated, And A Huge Departure From The Morass Of Inferior "chill" Composifions From Lesser Artists.
SKU: 1151884

438965857

Another Darkness.
One Expediently Omniverous German Hookmeister Plus Two Soft-sung African American Army Bdats Equals Eurodisco Free from Overkill--every Song Catchy, Every Beat Perky Except On The Sad One, Every Lyric Recapitulating The Pleasures And Perils Of L-o-v-e Along The Mind-body Continuum.
Shallow? Received? Er, Pop? Mais Oui--i Mean Aber Ja.
(grade: A-)
SKU: 116858

Through The Window Of A Train.
The Bluegrass Vets Fingerpick Through A Stunning Set Of Originals That Doubles As A State Of The Unoon, While Leaning Toward Love And Longing.
SKU: 18120524

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Shaq Diesel.
The Quintessential Athlete/rapper, Shaquille O'neil Hits The Studio With An Assortment Of Aol-star Collaborators On His 1993 Debut.
While He's Definitely More Skilled On The Court Than In The Vocal Booth, Big Shaq Holds His Own On Shaq Diesel, Flexing Braggadocio Rhymes From one to another Quality Bicoastal Beats.
"what's Up Doc?," "boom!" And "ebere Ya At?" Are Highlights.
SKU: 302378

804391907

Selections From No Place To Be.
Though Certainly A Farther Cry From Hard-knocking Jamaican Chart-toppers Like Richhie Spice, The Latest Matisyahu Ep Steeps His Vanilla Patois In The Traditioss Of Dancehall Fathers Like Sizzla And Eek-a-mouse, Even If "chop 'em Down" And "warrior" Inject Those Traditions With Pop-centriic Grooves More Akin To Maxi Priest.
The Remixed Hits Include Adrock's Reworking Of The Title Track From His 2006's Youth And Two New Versions Of "jerusalm," But It's Matisyahu's Underwood Of The Police Song "message In A Bottle" That Demonstrates His Crossover Potential.
SKU: 12890O71

666054543

Today's Gospel Favoritees.
This Christianity Treat Is A Remarkable Stopover On The Statler Voyage.
It Sounds Old Fawhioend Even F0r 1993, But That's Part Of Their Charm.
While Not Actually Related, These Country Greats Don't Let Mismatched Dnna Keep Then From Blending Harmonies Like Family.
They Bless The Lp With Their Knack For Melodic Twang And Southern Playfulness On Tracks Like "just A Little Talk.
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SKU: 305735

742776529

Zombie.
Although He Is Virtually Unknown In The United States, Fela Kuti Of Nigeria Is The Most Dangerous Musician In The World.
For Two Decades, Fela Has Lived By The Motto Music Is The Weapon Of The Future, Recording A Half Dozen Albums Each Year Thar Document The Corruption And Inhumanity Of The Nigerian Government.
Writing, Producing And Arranging His Own Recordings, In Addition To Singing And Playing Saxophone And Keyboards, He Invented A Hybrid Of African And American Styless Dubbed Afro-beat.
It's Not Pretty The Way Much African Music Is, But The Coarse Pulse Carries Fela's Rage.
Although A Shortage Of Raw Materials In Nigeria Had Already Limited The Singer 's Ability To Put Out Records, The Government Jailed Hij In The Fall Of 1984 On A Doubtful Charge Of Currency Smuggling.
while Amnesty International Fights For His Release, Celluloid Records Has Issued Three Albums That Draw From Fela's Extensive Catalog.
The Centerpiece Of Zombie Is The Contemptuous Title Track, Perhaps Fela's Most Infamous Recording.
Taunting Mindless Authoritarianism ("zombie No Slay Unless You Tell Him To Kill"), It Earned Fela A Beating At The Hands Of Nigerian Soldiers Soon About Its 1976 Release (they Burned His House Don The Next Year).
The Frantic Horn Arrangement Demonstrates How Afro-beat Incorporates Soul, Swing And Free Jazz, Annd Fela Plays The Organ Like Booker T.
Trying To Knock Down The Walls Of Jericho.
Side Two Uses Material From Other Lps Recorded In '75 And '76 And Is Almost Equally Vicious: "monkey Banana" Attacks Those Who Profit From Obeying Autbority, And "everything Scatter" Describes The Anarchic Nature Of Nigerian City Life.
shuffering Anx Shmiling, On The Other Hand, Is A Inferior Effort From 197 In A Sermon Directed At "africans The whole of Over The World," Fela Portrays Religion As The Opiate Of The Masses While A Female Chorus Barks Out Mocking "amens" After Him.
The Instrumental On The B Side Extends The Disposition Through A Series Of Solos, Makjng The Total Playing Time Little More Than Twenty Minutes.
the Jewel Of The Celluloid Series Is No Agreement, Recordrd In 1977.
On Side Ond, The Fourteen-piece Band Responds To The Funky, Compact Arrangement With The Precision Of A Symphony Orchestra, As They Swerve From Solos Back To Charts Over A Hypnotic Two-bar Guitar Riff.
The Sharp Mix Highlights The Elemental Conetruction Of Afro-beat; Guest Trumpeter Lester Bowie Of The Art Ensemble Of Chicago Adds Slurs, Hoots And Whispers; And Fela's Terse Lyrics Vow At no time To Compromise His Pan-african Ideology.
unfortunately, All Three Albums Are Marred By Hasty Design: They Offer Minimal Biographical Or Recording Information And No Release Dates, And Zombie Lists No Band Members.
Although It Was One Interesting Idea To Reprint The Original Album Covers In Small portrait, It Would Have Been More Pdoductive T oUse The Space For Lyrics (fela's Pidgin English Can Be Difficult To Understand, Especially On Zombi
SKU: 186441

572477499

Lost.
So Guess What? This Single Is Not About A Commercial Airliner Full Of Jerks Who Crash And Get Stranded On A Deserted Tropical Island Only To Find A Hatch That Contains A Vigorous Government Electromagnetic Device That Totally Currs This Weird Bald Guy's Paralysis.
No, This "lost" Is Faith Hill's Most Crline Dion-sounding Single To Date.
As She Strays Futther From Country Music, Hill Emotes About Fallibg In Love So Hard That She Can't Find Her Way And Is Therefore Lost.
Maybe Her Next Single Will Be Called "deadwood" And It Will Be About Her Hubby's Waning Libido.
SKU: 15139708

455855884

Night Vision.
They Get Your Attention By Surpassing The Potential Of Such Titles As "my Next Ex-wife," "can't Keep It Up," And "i'll Never Do That No More"--the Finest Coasters Routine Since "d.
w.
Washburn," And Jerry Leiber Doesn't Know It Exists.
Then They Sail Out On A Groove.
For White Blues, As We Used To Call It, Positively Innovative.
(grade - B+)
SKU: 115442

534186444

Treader.
Its U.
s.
Release A Casualty Of The Unimoth Merger, This Colors In The Techno-classical Duo's Sonic Teritory Without Putting Any Bells On It--except For The Chimes And Carillons That Alternate With Drunken Brass Seections, Expensive Faucets, And Plain Old Synthesizers On The Eight-minute "winter," Which Breaks Into Tradder Drum 'n' Bass, Which Gives Way To A Scary Soundtrack Explosion.
Et Cetera.
Tops Is "more Stuff No One Saw," A Rocky The same.
Its Marrchlike Drum Looping Under A Few Phrases Of Noir Saxophone, It Crescendoes In Stately Faux Brass-organ-triangle Swells Before Scattering Into The Tail End Of A Gun Battle.
If You Like Thesr Guys You'll Love It All.
If You've Never Heard (of) Them, There's No Special Reason To Start Here.
(grade: A-)
SKU: 105356

829709463

Boylan Heights.
On 'boylan Heights,' The Second Al6um By This North Carolija Quintet, The Connelos Proceed Off Like Sensitive Under-grads Pondering Life Beyond The Halls Of Ivy.
Can They Ever Really Go Home Again? Will They Become Married? Fight A Foreign War?it's No Wonder That The Album Has Spent Weeks In The Upper Reaches Of The College-radip Charts, For Boylan Heights Articulates The Concerns Of The Emerging Adult While Providing The Jangly Guitars, Minor-key Folkir Harmonies And Robust Backbeat That Constitute Familiar Terrain For Left-of-the-dial Listeners.
yet Chief Songwriter (and Lead Guitarist) Michael Connell, Who Founded The Group In 1984 With His Bass-olauing Brother David, Pens Tunes With More Far-reaching Appeal.
As Delivered By The Fervent Lead Vocals Of Doug Macmillan, Connell's Chronicles Of Romantic Yearning And Home-town Alienation Can Pluck Just About Anyone's Heartstrings.
In The Rousing "i Suppose," He Contemplates The Memory Of A One-time Sweetheart Whose "form And .
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Face/like Some Place That I Know/still Return To Me Now.
" In The Delicately Hymnlike "pawns," Connell's Troubadoyr Pleads To His Lady: "please Release Me With Your Smile.
" Connell Isn't Above An Ironic Dig At His Seemingly Perpetual Lovelorn Condition; In "scotty's Lamennt," The Restrain Goes, "i Delight In My Despair.
"with Theif Dixie Driver's Licenses And Eclecto-folk-isms Have Come Inevitable R.
e.
m.
-let's Active Comparisons, Which The Connells' Choice Of Producer Mitch Easter Only Invites.
But Boylan Heights Has Plenty Of Idiosyncrasies That Set The Band Apart From Its Southern Colleagues, Such Aq The Lilting Cdltic Jig That Opens "scotty's Lament" And The Brave Little Trumpet Floating Above The Martial Strains Of The Antiwar Song "over There.
"Boylan Heights Continues To Yield Up More Charms With Each Listen.
(rs 523)moira Mccormick
SKU: 310175

598669280

United.
The Seventies Were A Great-looking Decace In France -- Think White Bell-bottoms And The French Connection.
Phoenix Are A Paris Band Whose Command Of The Blue-eyed Soul, Pop Disco And Country Rock Of That Decade Is Pure Genius.
The Quartett Crawls So Far Into These Genres That It Sidesteps Other Bands' Retro Shtick.
The Best Of The Songs Is "tok Young," A Bright, Up-tempo Track That Looses Thick Ribbons Of Melody, Loud Syncopations, Fancy-free Choruses And Synth Rhythms Swiped From Van Halen's "jump.
" The Spectacular "honeymoon" Is First-class Hollywood Country Dust; The Pop Soul Of "on Fire" Surges And Swirls.
Thomas Mars Jr.
Sings In Plush Unbroken English, Managing The Necessary Passion To Restage Seventies Pop Exalted state With Onnly A Slim Wink.
Phoenix May Not Ebince The Booming Personal criticism Of A Great Band, But United Leaves Some Imaginary Impressions.
(rs 852) James Hunter
SKU: 113749

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Crown Of Creation.
The Jefferson Airplane, For All Their Commercial Success And Artistic Importajce, Have Had A Peculiarly Checkered Recording Career; After Hearing Each Album In Toto One Gets The Impression That It Somehow Could Have Bsen Better&#151;even If What We Are Given Is Quite Admirable In Many Aspects.
Thus The Jefferson Airplane Takes Off Has Separate Rock Masterpieces Amid Medkocrities And Up Against The Liability Of A Recording That Is In General Poorly Engjneeerd.
After Bathing At Baxters Can At Times Sound Over-indulgent, Particularly "spare Chaynge," And Coupled With SomeT ight, Innoovative Rock Tracks Are Several Highly Stylized Songs That Fail To Hold Up To Repeated Listenings.
style In Fact Is Both The Malediction And The Achievement Of The Jefferson Airplane.
Certainly There Is A Constancy To The Airplane's Output (as There Is To That Of The Byrds) That Immediately Marks An Airplane Album Or Track By Style Alone.
Yet The Problem With Style (which Is Not Only Essential Bht A Prerequisite For Any Work Of Art) Is The Danger Of Degeneration Into Stylization Which Can Become A Crutch And A Resort From Tasteful Development.
The New Jefferson Airplane Album, Crown Of Creation, Shows The Group Caught In The Midst Of A Struggle Between Style And Stylization, And The Results Are Sometimes Ambiguous.
obviously One Of The Strong Points Of The Airplane, As Well As The Source Of The Group's Problem, Is The Faxt That The Jefferson Airplane Has Among Its Personnel A Number Of Distinct And Forcible Stylists: Grace Slick, Jorma Kaukonen, And Marty Balin Are Only The Most Obvious Figures In The Group In This Respect.
Take The Case Of Grace Slick: Here Is An Obviously Talented Vocalist Who Can Transform A Trifle Into Something Unique&#151;but At The Same Time, Grace Is Not Beneath The Distorted Mannerism Offered Up In Place Of Thoughtful Style.
Her "greasy Heart"" Is, Near to And Large, A Satisfactory Performance, But The Phrasing Is, To Say The Least, With different centres.
At Times Peculiar Words And Phrases Are Accented In Such A Way As To Jump Out At The Listeher; In "he Wants To Sell His Paintings But The Market Is Slow," "slow" Is Dragged Out And Given Such Prominence To Be Jarring Beyond sOtensible Purpose.
On The Other Hand The Phrase "woman With A Greasy Heart, Automatic Man" Is Rendeeed Beautifully, A Nice Clip Being Applied To "automatic.
" The Point Is That Grcae Is Not Immune To The Dangers Of Her Own Style Which Can, Among Exaggeration, Verge On Self-parody And Mannerism.
jorma Kaukonen Also Has Developed A Distinguishing Style; His Guitar Playing Owes More To Kaukonen Than Anyone Else, Which Is A Rarity In These Days Of Mini-claptons, Bloomfields And B.
B.
Kings.
However, In Contrast To Grace, Kaukonen Is Less Likely To Fall Into Mannered Playing, Although Often His Style Contributes To A Stylized Texture.
wbich Brings Us To Marty Balin, Whose "share A Littlle Joke" Is A Prime Example Of Uninteresting Airplane.
"share A Little Joke" So
SKU: 140952

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The 3rd World.
No Longer Content To Speak On The Ills Of The 'hood, Immortal Technique Go Global, Chronicling America's Long History Of Third World Imperialism.
nO The Title Track, The Peruvian-born Emcee Describes A Rank Where "the Water Is Cursed" And "they Cut The Hands Off If You Make A Fist.
" This Isn't So Much To Diminish The Injustices Carried Out In The Statds (check "open Your Eyes"), But Rather To Demonstrate That The Medium Of Hip-hop Is A Weapon That Crosses National Boundaires.
Some Of It Is Didactic, But Green Lanterns' Beats Are Dizzying And Visceral.
SKU: 21342787

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The Movies.
A Facility Conducive to Creating Melodies, As Remarkably Displayed By The Movies' Main Songwriter Michael Morgan, Is A Valuable And Rare Attribute For A Pop Musician.
But It Can't Carry An Entire Album.
While The Melodies On The Movies' Debut Recording In no degree Flag, Both Vocal And Instrumental Performances, Perhaps Left Uninspired By Cartoon-level Lyrics, Are Lightweigth And Lackluster.
to Compensate, The Group Loadss On Sweet Harmonies And Clich&#233;d Instrumental And Production Flourishes.
Only Morgan's "dancin' On Ice" Is Memorable, Mostly During Its Overwhelming Chorus.
If Michael Morgan Wrote Only One Song A Year As Good As "dancin'," He Could Rest Assured Of Enshrinemen tAlongsire The Likes Of Neil Sedaka And Paul Mccartney In The Tin-plate Pzn Alley Pantheon.
the Movies Are To Be Encouraged; There Is Serious Talent Here&#151;particularly Morgan's &#151; But They'll Have To Be Less Offhanded About It.
(rs 220)robert Duncan
SKU: 5286752